1/21/2023 0 Comments Shadow of the colossus ps2 colossiOther than that, the game is pretty much the same. The landscapes particularly stand out, with the foliage bending and swaying in ways reminiscent to Horizon Zero Dawn. It shows, as the game looks significantly better than the previous counterparts. While the core code is still the same in terms of colossus AI and mechanics, the assets have been rebuilt from the ground up. I certainly have rose colored glasses about Shadow of the Colossus, but with the recent commercial and critical shortcomings of The Last Guardian (Team Ico’s third and most recent game), now is the perfect time to revisit the Forbidden Lands and see if things hold up.įirst off, the 2018 remake of Shadow of the Colossus does have some differences from its previous PS2/PS3 incarnations. There’s an interesting (read interesting as, “interesting to the nerds of nerds”) discussion in the videogames as art community about if we’ve reached the point where any videogame can really be considered “timeless,” and I’ll go over that in another article. over Super Mario Odyssey, and the new Doom is just way better. No child in their right mind seriously wants to play Super Mario Bros. Praise for Shadow of the Colossus has become so ubiquitous in gaming culture that you could just take random words from all the various sentences spoken about it and still come out with a semi-coherent 9/10 review.īut as we have seen with so many iconic titles, time is especially unkind to the videogame industry. If you haven’t heard of Shadow of the Colossus, then I suggest walking up to anyone in their late twenties/early thirties with a beard and ask them what they thought. Yes, despite being named after their initial work, Team Ico are best known for their second title, Shadow of the Colossus. As much as I pride myself on being an alpha nerd muckety muck up to speed on all the latest and greatest, I would never have even known about Ico had Shadow of the Colossus not existed.
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